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SOURCES

This essay is largely based on material in the 2012 documentary The Eye Has to Travel, produced and directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, spouse of Diana Vreeland’s grandson, Alexander Vreeland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Vreeland:_The_Eye_Has_to_Travel

The Ballets Russes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballets_Russes

Diana Vreeland, pupil of Michel Fokine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Vreeland

DV studied ballet under choreographer Michel Fokine
New York Times | The Lady in Red by Diane Rafferty | Dec. 15, 2002
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/books/the-lady-in-red.html

Anna Pavlova and Folk Dances
https://www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d2pavlva1.htm

The Gavotte
https://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3gavot.htm

George Plimpton conversations
https://www.wmagazine.com/story/diana-vreeland-fashion-writer-editor-and-curator/

D.V. Memoir: Chris Hemphill And George Plimpton
Diana Vreeland: A Bravura Style by John Duka | June 3, 1984
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/03/style/diana-vreeland-a-bravura-style.html

DV memoir dictation to George Plimpton
‘Diana Vreeland’ measures impact of a fashion pioneer by Joe Williams | Jan 24, 2013
https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/movies/reviews/diana-vreeland-measures-impact-of-a-fashion-pioneer/article_8c23bedb-9ac6-577f-8494-6c653f944e69.html

Diana Vreeland biographical info
Obituary on Diana Vreeland | The New York Times Archives by Bernadine Morris | Aug. 23, 1989
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/23/obituaries/diana-vreeland-editor-dies-voice-of-fashion-for-decades.html

The Dick Cavett Show with guest Diana Vreeland (date reference)
New York Times | Television | May 8, 1978
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/08/archives/television-morning-afternoon-evening.html

Love in the Afternoon, script segment
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050658/characters/nm0000030

Carmel Snow discovering Diana Vreeland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmel_Snow

Diana Vreeland: The Modern Woman: The Bazaar Years, 1936-1962 (excerpt)
https://www.amazon.com/Diana-Vreeland-Modern-Bazaar-1936-1962/dp/0847846083

DV on Imagination
“I think your imagination is your reality,” she’d say, “Only what you imagine is real.” 
Post by  Kurt Thometz of The Private Library | March 27, 2012
http://www.the-private-library.com/2012/03/27/from-the-library-of-diana-vreeland-2/

NY Times 1984 archive article by John Duka:
”I think your imagination is your reality,” she said. ”Only what you imagine is real…” –DV
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/03/style/diana-vreeland-a-bravura-style.html

Josephine Baker & “American Women of Style” Exhibition
New York Times Fashion by Phyllis Feldkamp | December 7, 1975
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/07/archives/fashion.html

Style Maven: Diana Vreeland and the Met (Part 5) IMF.blog post | June 13, 2013
http://inmyfashion.blogspot.com/2013/06/style-maven-diana-vreeland-and-met-part_13.html

Lillian Bassman
https://artanddesigninspiration.com/the-mistress-of-the-darkroom-lillian-bassman/

Evelyn Tripp (model in Lillian Bassman photo)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Tripp

Met Gala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Met_Gala

Simon Doonan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Doonan

Vaslav Nijinsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaslav_Nijinsky

IMAGE SOURCES

Diana Vreeland early years, Victoria era
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)

Russian choreographer Mikhail Fokin
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw174476/Michel-Fokine

Sergei Diaghilev and company at Grand Opera in Paris
https://tass.ru/spec/sergei_dyagilev

Diana Vreeland in turban
https://fortuny.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en/archivio-mostre-en/diana-vreeland-after-diana-vreeland/2012/03/4979/project-2/

Diana Vreeland in turban (descriptive info)
https://www.jckonline.com/magazine-article/cross-wearer-diana-vreelands-chanel-brooches/

Audrey Hepburn in Harper’s Bazaar spread, September 1959
https://www.phillips.com/detail/richard-avedon/NY040212/33

Diana with her husband
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)

Coco Chanel in early 1900’s
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)

Diana with Carmel Snow (image and caption text)
https://pleasurephotoroom.wordpress.com/tag/diana-vreeland/

Josephine Baker in 1920s
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/314337248974659589/

Josephine Baker exhibit in Costume Institute’s “American Women of Style” (1975-76)
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)

Lillian Bassman photo of model Evelyn Tripp in Barbados (1954)
https://surroundedfashionblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/the-works-of-lillian-bassman/

Lillian Bassman photo of model Evelyn Tripp in Barbados (1954); image reference text
https://pleasurephoto.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/evelyn-tripp-in-swimming-by-claire-mccardell-photo-by-lillian-bassman-barbados-1954/

China Machado in Harper’s Bazaar, February 1959
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)

China Machado in Harper’s Bazaar, February 1959 – caption reference
https://blog.pattern-vault.com/2016/12/28/china-machado-for-vogue-patterns/ 

China Machado in Harper’s Bazaar, February 1959 (description for image on right)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/fashion/china-machado-first-non-white-supermodel.html

China Machado in Harper’s Bazaar, February 1959 (text on right page)
https://emilywardwell.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/054/

John and Jackie Kennedy in Harper’s Bazaar, February 1961
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)

Barbara Streisand in March 1966 issue of Vogue
https://yakymour.wordpress.com/2015/10/14/barbra-streisand-by-richard-avedon/

Barbara Streisand in March 1966 issue of Vogue (wardrobe description)
https://sophiakorver.blogspot.com/search/label/%22American%20Dior%22

Barbara Streisand in March 1966 issue of Vogue (historical reference)
http://barbra-archives.com/bjs_library/60s/vogue_march_1966.html

Barbara Streisand in March 1966 issue of Vogue (historical reference)
http://www.osmanahmed.co.uk/blog/2015/10/21/re-visiting-barbra-bender-and-sizzling-season-in-paris

Diana Vreeland in print dress, profile image
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)

Diana Vreeland working at Costume Institute
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)

Costume Institute opening night, aka  Met Gala (circa 1970s)
screenshot from The Eye Has to Travel (2012)

Diana Vreeland, c.1914
https://www.nickharvilllibraries.com/blog/category/diana-vreeland

Vaslav Nijinsky
https://noelter.wordpress.com/